Software list : : EDUCATION-->other

kdissert is a mindmapping tool to help students write texts such as dissertations, theses, and reports. It features both a mindmap view and a linear view, and several templates (LaTeX, HTML, and plain text).

Tkmatrix is an education math program to manipulate matrices. Matrices are part of linear algebra. It was developed for german students to learn algorithms and test own calculation. Therefore tkmatrix can give not even a solution but all algorithm steps as a report. It can calculate with float numbers and fractions (rational numbers of multiple precision). Solutions and protocols can be exported to ascii, html and latex files. It have nice Tk GUI. Tkmatrix have an Interface to Octave. It can load and save in octave format and use it as backend.

MemAid is like a traditional flashcard program to help you memorize question/answer pairs, but with an important twist: it uses a neural network to schedule the best time for an item to come up for review.

Aldo is a Morse code tutor with three kinds of exercises: Classic exercise, the Koch method, and exercises read from files. In classic exercise, you must guess some random strings of characters that Aldo plays in Morse code. The package has 6 skills; speed can be selected in cpm or wpm.

Engauge Digitizer is a digitizing tool that converts an image showing a graph or map into numbers. The image file can come from a scanner, digital camera, or screenshot. The numbers can be read on the screen, and written or copied to a spreadsheet.

A Smith charting program. You can enter either discrete components or transmission lines, see the results on screen and/or generate Postscript output. Component values can be changed numerically or using scrollbars.

Claroline is a free application based on PHP/MySQL allowing teachers or education organizations to create and administrate courses through the web.
Developed from teachers to teachers, Claroline is built over sound pedagogical principles allowing a large variety of pedagogical setup including widening of traditional classroom and online collaborative learning.

Klavaro is just another free touch typing tutor program. We felt like to do it because we became frustrated with the other options, which relied mostly on some few specific keyboards. Klavaro intends to be keyboard and language independent, saving memory and time (and money).

Pops up kvtml file items on the desktop. Use KWordQuiz or FlashKard to produce
kvtml files and load them into Klaid. It will grab all complete n x m
related items (e.g. "Question" and "Answer", or "Word A" and "Word B") and
displays them periodically as PopUps on the desktop.